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What is the term and law that prohibits the stopping of cars on the streets as the rioters do? Every definition I find seems to be restricted to police actions and not civilians. This is posted in ChitChat.

PINELLAS PARK - When the exam was over and score tallied, John Cox felt his spirit sag. He failed his driver's license test. "You're going to see a lot of me until I get my license," he promised the man behind the desk. Cox returned a month later in July and passed. His license is valid through 2010. "I'll be 103 then," Cox said Friday. "I'll keep driving until I can't. I don't let age get to me." The often difficult issue about elderly drivers resurfaced this week when a pedestrian was killed by a 93-year-old man who drove 3...

GRAND RAPIDS -- An automotive "black box" showed that a Jenison woman was speeding when her car hit and seriously injured a Kent County Road Commission worker patching a highway, Kent County prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors charged Joanne Schaap, 48, with speeding in a construction zone, causing an accident. She faces up to one year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine if convicted, along with three points on her driving record, authorities said. Brooks Hollemans, 27, of Rockford, suffered near-fatal head injuries in the May 24 crash on Int. 196 near Fuller Avenue NE, where he was filling...